On the importance of academic international engagements: An interview with Fred Moavenzadeh
MIT professor and former president of the Masdar Institute reflects on a career spent fostering international research and teaching collaborations.
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Extending super-resolution techniques
MIT graduate student Takuma Inoue tackles labeling RNA without genetic modification for doctoral studies.
DUSP, CRE, and Samuel Tak Lee Lab welcome inaugural class of fellows
Graduate students arrive to study socially responsible real estate development and global urbanization.
Hundreds of MIT students explore fields at the 2015 TOUR de SHASS
Academic expo connects students with MIT-SHASS faculty and courses.
Jay Whitacre wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention of a revolutionary battery
First mass-produced, low-cost, eco-friendly battery has the potential to transition the world toward a more sustainable energy future.
A new molecular design approach
New programming tool could help engineers build biologically inspired materials.
MIT will be the hub of the universe for science writers this October
Conference hosted by MIT-SHASS and the Knight Science Journalism fellowship program is the largest annual gathering of science communicators in the U.S.
Silicon photonics meets the foundry
Lionel Kimerling, Rajeev Ram, and other MIT researchers explore practical ways to bring optical interconnection toward and directly onto chips.
Saving rural India’s “liquid cash”
MIT spinout’s milk-chillers reduce spoilage and boost yields in villages.
CSAIL joins with Toyota on $25 million research center for autonomous cars
Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
Faculty Highlight: Ibrahim Cissé
Assistant professor of physics probes the formation of enzyme clusters that enable gene copying and protein production in living cells.
MIT announces steps to promote community well-being, strengthen mental health services
Chancellor and MIT Medical release results of student survey.
Turbocharging medical translation
Jeff Karp’s diverse multidisciplinary team brings novel solutions to a wide array of health challenges.
India at the deep end
Incoming Tata Fellows get a crash course on resource-constrained communities and the challenges of the developing world.
Observing invisible vibrations
PhD student Justin Chen magnifies minuscule vibrations in structures to detect damage.